My journey to a healthy life

Transition Week

I have not been posting to this blog as much as I would like, but it all comes back to the balance issue. I have had several projects happening between school, work and life, that something needed to give a little, and it sadly was time to post on my blog. This should be better from now on however.

Right now I am looking back at 2011 and the changes that have happened in my life, and boy are there a lot of them! My goal at the start of the year was to become healthier and happier, and for the most part I have accomplished that goal. I started the year at 215 lbs and have since lost just over 10% of my bodyweight (currently 23.4 lbs), even with everything else that was happening. This has certainly helped to improve my health in a lot of areas. I don’t know that I am necessarily happier now than I was this time last year, but I know that I am happy with my life in general. So many things have happened this year, and I think that I handled them the best way that I could. Not everything went the way I would have liked it, but overall, I am proud of the things that I have accomplished over the last year.

I feel like I am in the middle of a transition process right now, where I am letting go of what happened in 2011 and preparing for 2012. While I don’t necessarily make “resolutions,” I do try to set goals for the coming year. Right now I am focusing on defining my goals for the coming year. There are so many things that I want to do, but I have to be realistic about how much I can take on at any one time. I will be posting a longer blog with my goals and plans for the coming year on New Year’s Eve as a kind of kick-off for where I want to go with my blog in the coming year as well. And I have big plans for this blog!

So I will be using this transition week to get some projects done for school, polish my goals, and define my plans for the first few months of the year.